Language Quotes · Page 257

“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.”

— Evan Meekins

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.”

— Sharon Salzberg

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.

— Alan Finger

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

— Arnold Bennett

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

— Evan Wolfson

I believe in you so much, I could die for the words that you say

— Anonymous

“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of…

— Mark Kurlansky

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it…

— Dennis Ritchie

“What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and…

— Robin Lee Hatcher

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the…

— Fernando J. Corbato

When you come to the South industry, they know that you don't know the language but it never becomes a barrier.

— Mukesh Rishi

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

— Northrop Frye

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice…

— David Levithan

The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our…

— Anonymous

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,…

— Eugene Peterson

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows…

— Ali Smith

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those…

— William Hazlitt

“If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but…

— Mark Forsyth

“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite…

— Terry Pratchett

I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to…

— Adrian Matejka

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.

— Lauren Oliver

“But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing.”

— Szymon Laks

“The right words are fire that burn through the most stagnant of hearts and minds”

— Ashley Lynn Dotson

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

— William Carlos Williams

“All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song.”

— Wallace Black Elk Lakota

“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”

— A.A. Patawaran

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

— John Harold

Babe, if I reply to your one word text. You really mean the world to me.

— Anonymous

I would have to talk for a year to repeat a single on of my works with words.

— Auguste Rodin

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

— Gianfranco Zola

“Only is a powerful word. It is extreme. It picks a fight. It draws a line in the sand.”

— Rob Rienow

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words

— Berenice Bejo

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

— Jane Goodall

Not simply to help learners read the word, but rather to help them read the world

— Author Name